Jar-cover-repairing tool.



Nu. 704,217. Patented July 8, 1902. I

L. SARR.

JAB COVER REPAIRING TOOL.

(Application filed Mar. 12, 1902.)

(No Model.)

XW b2 ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEON SARR, OF OEYLON, OHIO.

JAR-COVER-REPAIRING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704.,217', dated July8, 1902.

Application filed March 12, 1902. Serial No. 97,846. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEON SARR, a citizen of the United States, residingat Ceylon, in the county of Erie and State of Ohio, have invented a newand useful Tool for Repairing Jar- Covers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to tools for straightening and re-forming metaltops for fruitjars and similar receptacles that have been bent orotherwise made unfit for use. I attain these objects with the toolillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is avertical section of the tool, showing certain parts in full. Fig. 2 is atop view of the tool.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thedifferent views.

The tool is provided with two handles A and O. The lower handle 0 isprovided at one end with a convenient place to hold the tool in hand,and at the other end it is curved to suit the lower side of a standardfruit-jar cover. As shown in Fig. 2 the upper side of this curvedportion is beveled to suit the standard fruit-jar cover. The lever B isinterposed between the two handles A and O and is pivotally fastened atone end to the upper side of handle O by pin E, and the other end of thelever B is provided with a curved shaped part which is curved to suitthe upper side of a standard fruit-jar cover. The under or lower edge ofthis curved portion is beveled to suit the standard fruit-jar cover, andwhen the curved portion of lever B is forced down on the curved portionof the handle C it forms a clamp or press for pressing the bends andkinks out of fruit-jar covers, and thus repairing old and useless coversand making them fit for use again. The

fastened inthe lower handle by pin F, so that when the two levers arepushed together the cam' forces the lever B, with its beveled curvededge, down on the beveled curved edge of the lower handle 0, and thusforming a great pressure between the beveled curved jaws of the tool forre-forming the bent or crooked edges of fruit-jar covers. The spring Draises the lever B when the handle is released, thus opening the beveledcurved jaws to release the jar-cover.

I do not wish to confine my invention to the repairing of fruit-jarcovers, as it is plainly evident that it maybe used for various otherthings, such as forming thin metal designs by slightly changing theshape of the jaws.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- In a jar-cover-repairing tool having a lower handlewith a beveled curved jaw at one end and handholding place at the other,an intermediate lever pivoted in the lower lever at one end, and havingbeveled curved jaws at the other, fitting jaws on the lower lever, aspring for raising the said intermediate lever, and an upper leverpivoted in the lower lever and having a cam on the under side whichengages the intermediate lever to force it down on the lowerbevel-curved jaw of the lower handle, thus forming a means of pressingthe edges of a jar-cover substantially as shown and described.

LEON SARR.

WVitnesses:

ALBERT MANN, A. T. CHEETHAM.

